. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... eorgia became the field of active land oper-ations. Atlanta had been strongly fortified, and it was not evacuated until September1,.after a desperate resistance on the part of the Confederates, and several hard-foughtstruggles. Sherman, having removed the inhabitants and destroyed everything of valueto tiie enemy, left Atlanta November 15, with 05,000 men, and began his famous march 49 to the sea, Milledgeville was reached on the 23d, and the coast on December 10. FortMcAllister was taken by storm on the 13tli, and on the nio;h
. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... eorgia became the field of active land oper-ations. Atlanta had been strongly fortified, and it was not evacuated until September1,.after a desperate resistance on the part of the Confederates, and several hard-foughtstruggles. Sherman, having removed the inhabitants and destroyed everything of valueto tiie enemy, left Atlanta November 15, with 05,000 men, and began his famous march 49 to the sea, Milledgeville was reached on the 23d, and the coast on December 10. FortMcAllister was taken by storm on the 13tli, and on the nio;ht of the 20th Savannah wasevacuated. Thus the Confederacy was cut in half; and the operations of Gen. Wilson,who entered Georgia from Alabama, in April, 18G5, took Columbus, West Point andMacon, and on May 10 captured Jeifer-on Davis, president of the Confederacy, at Irwin-ville, ended the war in this section. The first State constitution was framed in 1777, asecond in 1789, and a third in 179S. This was several times amended and was superseded STATE OF in 1SG8 Ijy a new one. In 1877 another new constitution was adopted. The process ofreconstruction was not completed until 1870. In that year the Georgia senators andrepresentatives were admitted to Congress, all the amendments having been previouslyratified, and colored men declared eligible to office by the State supreme court. I^OjndaHon—Census of 1880: Males, 762,981; Females, 779,199; Native,1,531,016; Foreign, 10,564; White, 816,906; Colored, 725,274, including 17 Chinese,and 124 Indians and Half-breeds. 50 STATE OF FLORIDA.
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